Like firing off 22 shorts? Mister, thats a load of bullshit. I would like to see you stand across the street while I fire one round of buckshot. If there is anything left of you it wont be breathing. Its called buckshot because it is used to hunt deer. And they are 30 caliber balls, not 22 shorts. Your last sentence is true, what you say is fiction. Ignorant people who get their information from movies and such think a sawed off shotgun scatters pellets far and wide, but anyone who has ever fired one knows that at 25 yards(across the street) the pellets only spread out about 4 to 6 inches.

In war, injuries are often more burdensome to the enemy than fatalities. Though they call it gang-warfare, I doubt they have gang-medics, and I bet that the public hospitals recieve much of the burden of the injured.

So... Technically, a sawed off shotgun could do more damage in a drive by than a 7.62mm SAW, under conditions of warfare.

For urban violence under a functioning state though, John Henry has got a point. A sawed-off shotgun probably won't kill anybody in a driveby.

If by hunting related things you mean a huge military that is trained to shoot on sight and doesn't care (obviously from any other mission they have done ) If they kill women, children, animals, wildlife, or any other living or useful thing we have on this planet. Sure! hunting related things.

As an adamant 2nd Amendment defender I think the language is quite clear. It has nothing to do with the police or self-defense. It's about ensuring that our civilian population, that will comprise the "militia" of a citizen army, should have access to firearms ensuring the best possible riflemen to defend the nation.

I don't want an infantry with one week of weapons training. I want people that have been shooting their whole lives. The individual rifleman is a mighty, mighty weapon. And I want America to have the best riflemen in the world.

We dismissed the militia system after we got our asses handed to us by Canada in the War of 1812. We went to a professional standing army. But that army is still comprised of citizens, not foreign mercenaries, so I defend our right to own and use guns, nurturing and developing that skill set amongst those that might enlist.